Curandero

Curandero - leon de montana is the first book in the Curandero Trilogy. Each book in the series is a complete novel. This is an action drama in the tradition of the Classic Western, but set in the 21st Century. The location, the isolated desert ranch lands of the Trans Pecos region of West Texas, along the Rio Grande border with Mexico. Here the ranchers live a lifestyle in many ways unchanged since the days when the gun was law out here. When it comes down to it, not a lot has changed. The people clinging to their traditional lifestyle at the edge of the desert rely upon their horses, their knowledge of the wild desert and canyons and in some cases their closely guarded, shamanist powers. The drug running tidal wave sweeping up into Texas from Mexico, driven by ruthless and violent cartels, intrudes on the old way of life. A violent confrontation is inevitable.

The story centres on Quaid, a young man living on his father's ranch with his widowed mother and an elderly Mexican shaman or curandero. Their lives are changed forever by the intrusion of the drug cartels. The life of Achai, the curandero, is on a collision course with the evil tide of drug trafficking and the threat it comes to represent to the ancient order and wisdom of the desert and to the honour and romance of this last remnant of the Old West.

This is a fast-paced modern story with a totally unique hook to the plot and a satisfying outcome that would fit right in with the best tales in the Western genre.